Post Lecturer to Focus on Science of Sport Concussions Sept. 22

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Kevin Guskiewicz, director of the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, will deliver the fall 2011 Post Lecture. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Guskiewicz, chair of exercise and sport science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, will deliver the lecture at 11 a.m. in Dina's Place. He is the Kenan Distinguished Professor and director of the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. He also holds joint appointments in the Department of Orthopaedics, the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center and the doctoral program in human movement science at UNC-Chapel Hill. Over the past 17 years, Guskiewicz’s clinical research program has focused on sport-related concussion.

Throughout his career, Guskiewicz has received 22 funded research grants, and published more than 120 manuscripts (85 peer-reviewed journal publications and eight textbook chapters on sport concussion). Since 1996, he also has presented more than 200 national and international lectures on the topic of sport-related concussion. Guskiewicz teaches courses in sports medicine, human anatomy and research methods in sports medicine.